MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY

HCR · Health Issues

Telehealth related issues Monitor the following: Teaching Hospitals related issues Rural Health and Health Disparity related issues Organ transplant issues Academic Medical Centers related issues

MED · Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs

National Institutes of Health and various institutes and bureaus thereof; Medical research and development related issues; and NIH indirect costs. Monitor Health Resources Services Administration, Medical research and development related issues.

MMM · Medicare/Medicaid

Public Law 119-21, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, State directed payments; Provider taxes Disproportionate share hospital payments Telehealth reimbursement issues Low Volume Adjustment Hospitals Medicare Dependent Hospitals Monitor the following: The Hospital Inpatient Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and Long Term care Hospital Prospective Payment System (IPPS), Proposed Rule changes Graduate Medical Education (GME) issues 340B related issues

TAX · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Monitor Public Law 119-21, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Research and development amortization tax credit related issues

VET · Veterans

Academic Affiliate program related issues

BUD · Budget/Appropriations

H.R.5304/S.2587, Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, FY2026, NIH issues; Medical research; Organ allocation issues; Biomedical research facilities; HRSA Rural and Telehealth programs; HRSA related issues; CDC related issues; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality program issues; and NIH indirect costs. H.R.5371, Continuing Appropriations and Extension Act, FY2026, Generally and Shutdown issues Monitor the following: Rural Health IT Program related issues HRSA Program related issues, generally IDeA program

Literal federal measure citations: H.R.5304, S.2587, H.R.5371

EDU · Education

Public Law 119-21, One Big Beautiful Big Bill Act, Student loan provisions